Gunman Chronicles is a futuristic first-person shooter computer game using
the Half-Life game engine. It was originally planned as a total
conversion for Quake; it then switched games to Quake II, followed by
another switch to Half-Life, before being spotted by Valve Software and released as a stand-alone retail product in 2000.
The player's character is Major Archer, a soldier who once left his
commanding officer behind on a battlefield believing him to be dead. As
the story unfolds, Major Archer discovers that said commanding officer,
known only as The General, in fact survived the battle on Banzur Prime,
and was swallowed by a giant fish known as the Delta Species.